June 19, 2007

Review in The New Yorker

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

GALLERIES—BROOKLYN

“PROJECT: RENDITION”

While not quite extraordinary, this show, by JC2—a.k.a. Joy Episalla,
Joy Garnett, Carrie Moyer, and Carrie Yamaoka—makes nice use of a
famous 1630 sermon by John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony. It is from this document that Presidential speechwriters
lifted the phrase “a city upon a hill.” JC2 prints an excerpt of the
text on a giveaway poster, in ink that shows up only in black light:
“The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely
with our God in this work we have undertaken . . . we shall be made a
story and a by-word throughout the world.” An interactive sculpture is
more heavy-handed—a pentagonal box in mirrored glass, with a soundtrack
of snippets of jingoistic sci-fi. Through June 25. (Momenta, 359
Bedford Ave. 718-218-8058.) [Link]